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  • I take your point, but honestly I’d bet many would be ready to learn about complex numbers a lot earlier if they were taught in this way.

    Having such a memorable physical analogy “because I said so” is already miles better than the purely abstract “multiplying negatives makes a positive because I said so”, even if it still doesn’t mean you could teach extremely high level maths to six year olds.